An 18-year-old Minnesota woman has been arrested in connection to a residential burglary, accused of sneaking into her neighbor’s house through the doggie door. The woman has blamed her actions on debt and an addiction to pornography, Anoka County sheriff’s spokesman Paul Sommer told The Huffington Post. Ahh.. porn addiction …
A western Queensland man has been handed a record fine for illegally clearing more than 1800 hectares of native vegetation without a permit on a property west of St George. Sam Scriven was convicted in the Roma Magistrates Court with illegally clearing 1819 hectares of native vegetation on a property …
A former high-flying Microsoft UK employee caught up in a $15 million court battle says the company has a culture of “excessive drunkenness” and that “outrageous misbehaviour were rife”, British media reports say. Simon Negus, 50, is suing Microsoft for about £10 million ($15 million) in lost earnings, wrongful dismissal …
Google and Facebook are trying to remove anonymity from the web by forcing people to sign up using their real names and banning people who use pseudonyms. But commentators argue that internet companies aren’t demanding real names to make the web a more civilised place, as the net giants say, …
Art is a very personal thing. One man’s Michelangelo is another man’s eyesore. But what about when it’s out in the open? Travel website Virtual Tourist has compiled a list of the world’s most terrible pieces of public art, as voted by its members and editors. Some of them dont …
A US weather reporter spent a four-minute live cross on Hurricane Irene discussing the green-brown foam covering him — describing it as “plankton or something” — only to find out later it was most likely raw sewage. Poor newsman he was tasting poo poos. Youtube here. Source
A teenage girl has been warned brushing her hair could kill her. Brave Megan Stewart is also at risk if she wears polyester clothing and can’t touch balloons at parties as static electricity could cause her brain to shut down. The 13-year-old suffers from an extremely rare condition called hair …
A father has trudged 25 kilometres in blizzard conditions to save his wife and baby stranded in their car in Kosciuszko National Park in southern NSW. The Canberra family’s car got stuck bad weather in the Goobarragandra Wilderness Area about 3pm (AEST) on Wednesday. The 37-year-old father, his 39-year-old wife …